Artificial Inteligence feed for Wednesday, July 1, 2026

• MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America
• SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
• Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
• Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
• LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.
• Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
• Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it
• Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return
• Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI